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06/16/2026

Mark your Calendar: June 20th, 14:00 to 17:00

Site-Specific Engagements with the City
Concordia Fine Arts Students undertake a residency with the Canadian Centre for Architecture

How might site-specific art practices make visible the unfinished, imperfect, and contested life of the city? Led by Professor Shauna Janssen (School of Performance) the intensive summer course explores site-specific art making as a critical spatial practice. In dialogue with the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), participating undergraduate students from across the Faculty of Fine Arts consider how the CCA’s social histories, exhibitions, collections, and archives might generate new forms of artistic and urban creativity. Responding to the current CCA exhibition, The fortune of the city is that it has never been perfect, the course takes up themes of informality, indeterminacy, and the interstitial as ways of thinking and making with the city. Students are developing site-specific projects that engage urban places not as fixed backdrops, but as layered environments shaped by social and cultural histories. Student projects will be presented and exhibited through a range of forms, including sound and sculptural works, research and architectural studies, scenographic and choreographic experiments, and multimedia installations.

Look at our Linktree for information on the event!

06/15/2026

SO MANY SHOWS INVOLVING OUR CREATIVE STUDENTS AT FRINGE MONTREAL!! GO SEE THEM!!

La Snowbird
"Mulche Mûlche? Mulché. It’s all breaking apart.
« Siri- what is mulch en français? »
« Je suis sorry, je n'ai pas understand pantoute. »
A wooden playground.
Castles. Creeks. Wooden fence.
Nostalgic. Heavy. Creaking. Nails stuck.
Un gros goodbye bin sale.
I’ll take the splinter out;
That's how much I love you."

DIRECTUS
Four shows in one! DIRECTUS is a collaborative project from It's Not Television, showcasing original works by four emerging writer/directors.

Two performers take on four unique pieces, and it'll all (somehow) happen in 45 minutes. For fans of Sartre, Cervantes, crumbling relationships, and dance!

A Knight Without a Quest
Set in the medieval world, A Knight Without a Quest follows Arter, who after making a big mistake, loses his honour and purpose as a knight. Determined to prove that he is worthy of being a knight, Arter sets out to complete a quest and reclaim his honour!

Bloody Cabaret!
Bloody Cabaret! is a cabaret-noir dramedy set on a winter evening in 1970s London. Guests, singers, and regulars gather in a jazz cabaret expecting a lovely performance night, until the stage becomes a crime scene. Through live music, singing and discussions, tensions rise and secrets unravel, making everyone a suspect.

Scions
Brothers and sisters divided by past choices. Two fled, two remain. All want to change their future for the better, but motives are confused and feelings are hurt. When the four siblings reunite the question lingers: What are they willing to risk to get what they want?

04/10/2026

Don’t cry when constellations beg to burn
by Ho Ka Kei / Jeff Ho
Opening tonight at 7:30 and two shows tomorrow, April 11- 1:30 and 7:30.

Don't miss it!!

On the photos you may see members of the CAST: Clarisse Bell, Jake Blom, Amelia Campbell-Reidhead, Charlie Cash, Ronan Chassin de Kergommeaux, Laure-Anais Chroné, Quinn de Pencier, Zoe Dupasquier, Kristina Fragias, Emma Goodfellow, Iris Guillemin, Jessica Halpern, Naomi Hoedemaker-Purvis, Rose Kain-Waterman, Sofia T. Occhipinti, Fisher Robinson, Lottie Sleath and Quinn Vinneau

The incredable creative team includes: Director - Sophie Gee, Assistant Director - Mélyssa Oubrayrie, Stage Manager - Eva Loren, Assistant Stage Manager - Beck Creasey and Isabella Jenkin, Set Designer - Jiyeon Lee, Assistant Set Designer - Elaf Wehbe, Costume Designer - Mia Rideout, Assistant Costume Designer - Olivia Steer and Taïga Troy Daneau, Lighting Designer - Kris Hodder, Assistant Lighting Designer - Linya Zhang, Props Designer - Stella-Charles Fisher Assistant Props Designer - Kimberly Müller and Charlotte Pezeril, Projection Designer - Nadia Agredi, Sound Designer - Lea Spatz, Assistant Sound Designer - Taras Petryk, Super Trouperette - Claire Labrecque.

The Department wants to thank the amazing staff, under the supervision of Jen Strahl, that are supporting the students designers during our season and the crew and running crew that are making this production possible!!

A million thanks!!

And a special thanks to Amy Keith, the talented Design Supervisor and to the Artistic Producer, Raymond Marius Boucher who acts under the radar but always there.

04/09/2026

Director's note from the extraordinary Emma Tibaldo: Staged Readings is an opportunity to discover the workshop format for developing work for production. The emphasis is on discovering the world of the play, engaging in rigorous analysis, imagining what their stage design might be, and experimenting with performing a play as a reading. It is an intensive dive into the world of the imagination.

Tonight, April 9 at 8PM
Saturday, April 11 at 2PM

If you show up at the door, you may get a free seat!

Go get it!!

CREATIVE TEAM Director - Emma Tibaldo Assistant director/ dramaturg - Kat Keca Stage Manager - Maya Chesnay Lighting and Projection - Nico Beaudoin Set, Costume, and Props - Aude Gingras Choreography - Murphy Guy-Lenser Sound and Composition - Ben Zoena

PErformerS Ensemble A & b Megan Byrne Mia Cirera-Hughes Noah Deskin Dario Roberto Esposito Mac Findlay Murphy Guy-Lenser Sara Maiorana Riley McManus-Jarand Eliza Milan Dondré Pryce-Lalla June Queen Sophie Ritchie Bella Trottenberg Tichina Williams

03/30/2026

More about the play
Don't cry when constellations beg to burn tells the story of a group of students tasked with selecting which books are to be taken out of their school library, based on the governing party's new guidelines. This is not some imaginary dystopian scenario. Playwright Ho Ka Kei included in his playtext an image of two women burning books outside a county library in China in December 2019. Closer to home, in July 2025 the Alberta government issued new guidelines on school library books so that children could have “age-appropriate access to school library materials, while reflecting the values and priorities of Albertans.” PEN America has documented nearly 16,000 book bans in US public schools since 2021. We are currently living through a shift towards authoritarianism around the world. The play looks at how young people can enable this thought control - or resist it. The rehearsal process will be an invitation to reflect on how theatre can document and comment on troubled times. In addition to this, students will explore physicality and puppetry while building the world of the play, come up with imaginative solutions to design challenges, and learn how to approach a contemporary, political text.
Content Warning: Violence, swearing.
More about Sophie Gee
I am touring my show Bonnes Bonnes to Factory Theatre in Toronto in April. The show is about wanting revenge for racism and capitalism as revenge. I am currently working on my next piece, People have to Eat, a documentary theatre/contemporary performance piece about myself, my father, and our family’s implication in the climate change crisis. My father immigrated from Malaysia to Canada in the 70s to work in the oil sands in Fort McMurray, where I was born. A zine on being a caregiver and a theatre artist I made for Theatre Direct's initiative Balancing Act will be printed in March 2026.

03/28/2026

TOMORROW!!

LISTEN: SPEAK
March 29th 6-8pm
Caserne 26
2149 avenue du Mont-Royal Est
Montréal

The students of the Elements of Multimedia from Concordia Department of Theatre present LISTEN: SPEAK. Working in response to human readings of text, the students have developed unique video and sound installations for the space at Caserne 26. Exploring a combination of texts and practical exercises, the students create in groups facilitated by instructor Meghan Moe Beitiks. Join us for a pop-up exhibition of their fantastical, hilarious, layered, conceptual and narrative works.

Image Credit: Lucia Castro Giron

03/27/2026

HAPPY WORLD THEATRE DAY!
We're in the last bit of our very productive Public Performance Projects artistic processes and today, is a special day to hear what is the importance of THEATRE for you!

Feel free to comment and tell us in a few words what you are passionate about in theatre, which shows have marked your artistic journey...

About the photo: If you're lucky enough to have seen this show, you may have been enchanted by the cast of performers as part of the project led by Gabriela Petrov, TOGETHERNESS that was presented in the fall.

On the photos, you may see Mitchell Aboud, Ethan Baah-Boakye, HD Chevalier, Lou Costil, Dario R. Esposito, Safia Azahra Hidara, Ethan Iverson, Duchesse Kifoula-Benie, Riley McManus-Jarand, Anita Orsel, June Queen, Sophie Ritchie, Thomas Toplis, Mazzy Toporoski and Tichina Williams

Director - Gabriela Petrov
Assistant facilitator - Juliana Theodoropoulos
Stage Manager - Giselle Breton

Photos by Daniel Yota

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